Success Story
Triggerfish is a computer animation film studio based in Cape Town, South Africa and Galway, Ireland. The studio is best known for its award winning animated features.
For their latest feature film, "Seal Team", they decided to completely change their pipeline and create something that would work for their artists. They wanted to leave the artists to focus solely on crafting the best artwork they could, and would leave all the complicated heavy lifting to their tools.
Triggerfish implemented an ‘always rendering’ ideology, which means that at any point in the pipeline, they would be able to “build” a shot/asset and send it to the render farm and view what it will look like at render time.
The Customer needed to improve workflow for artists and eliminate manual caching as the production was almost three years in production.
Their pipeline supervisor needed to create a clear method to track, build and update shots.
One of Triggerfish's goals on this feature was that they needed to create a parallel pipeline, where they used Autodesk ShotGrid to support a process whereby they could schedule more overlap between different phases of production and reduce the time before any downstream department could start work on any task.
In order for their ideas to work, Triggerfish needed a database. Autodesk’s ShotGrid is a database with a front-end application that people can access anywhere around the world and suited their needs very well - especially as they moved to become a mostly remote studio.
They are currently using ShotGrid as the core of their pipeline. Every shot has assigned characters/props/sets that their tools read and build with.
With this mentality, production can add or remove assets, change shot lengths, and shading variants that will automatically reflect in the artist’s scenes.
The automatic rendering uploads the latest versions automatically to ShotGrid allowing the directors to view increments and variations on the fly, or even render versions to check how current versions are working within the scene. This has proven the best asset to their pipeline to speed up processes.
Using this method does require every user to have a ShotGrid license, but the time artists are saving on re-caches, re-renders and shot fixes more than makes up the shortfall of the cost to the business. The studio have appreciated the support and service from the Modena Media and Entertainment team over the years.
Mike Buckland, Triggerfish Partner and Producer, comments " As we've taken on more ambitious projects , we have been pleased to see how the Modena M&E team have been able to accommodate our licensing needs as well as supporting our initiatives to encourage the growth of the Animation Industry."
Looking back on this project, the studio had a lot of ups and downs as they tried to break new ground on their pipeline with a lot of different iterations, concepts and theories as they worked toward their goal.
The Triggerfish team is very proud of what they have achieved in the new pipeline. Without Autodesk ShotGrid and its functionality, they don't think they would have been able to achieve it.
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